Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) finished Sunday’s trading session with collective gains after the EGX30 index rose by 1.78% to 40,753.45 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah, increased by 2.53% to 4,317.66 points.
Likewise, the EGX35-LV edged up by 1.04% to 4,494.38 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 ended the trading session higher by 0.38% at 12,291.29 points and by 1.08% at 16,399.17.
EGX’s turnover stood at EGP 6.933 billion through the exchange of 2.825 billion shares over 134,530 transactions, while the market cap reached EGP 2.881 trillion.
Egyptians took over 93.3% of trading transactions, while Arab and foreign traders equaled 5.56% and 1.15%, respectively.
Individual investors controlled 80.19% of total trading, while institutions represented 19.8%.
Arab and foreign investors were sellers with EGP 69.023 million and EGP 4.454 million, respectively. Egyptian traders were buyers with EGP 73.477 million.